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Volunteer opportunities

published Sunday, May 25, 2014

UGArden Harvesting and Maintenance needs volunteers 7-10 a.m. Wednesday to help harvest vegetables for Campus Kitchen and provide general maintenance at UGArden, a 3-acre student-run farm at the University of Georgia. For more, visit servicelearning.uga.edu.

Campus Kitchen at UGA needs volunteers 9-10 a.m. Thursday to help package more than 100 meals in the kitchen of Talmage Terrace Lanier Gardens to be delivered to grandparents that are raising their grandchildren and to home bound seniors in need. www.servicelearning.uga.edu.

Casa De Amistad needs volunteers to help maintain the community garden 5-6 p.m. June 4. Work includes weeding, planning, and community outreach. www.athensamistad.org.

Project Safe is seeking individuals and groups to host a donation drive to collect items for its emergency shelter. To sign up and for a current shelter needs, email April Byrne at abyrne@project-safe.org.

Aids Athens needs groups and individuals to provide a meal for support groups that meet at its Monroe location on the second Thursday of each month. For more, visit www.aidsathens.org.

Learning Ally, formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, needs volunteers to read books out loud so they can be recorded to help the visually impaired and those with learning disabilities read books and learn. For more, visit www.LearningAlly.org.

The Athens Area Homeless Shelter needs volunteers to provide evening meals for families at the shelter 365 days per year. To schedule a day to deliver dinner, check the calendar at www.helpathenshomeless.org or call (706) 354-0423 or visit

Hospice Advantage needs volunteers to help in its Athens office three hours per week. Tasks include filing, answering phones, faxing information and more. Training is provided. For more information, call (706) 354-1707.

Gentiva Hospice is seeking Veterans to participate in its Veteran-to-Veteran Program. Veteran volunteers will be paired with Veteran hospice patients to reminisce and tell life stories, take part in pinning ceremonies, help organize Veterans Day events and more. www.gentiva.com.

Burton Home Care needs volunteers to be activities assistants. Tasks include Bingo set-up and calling, lead sittercise classes and other activities appropriate for the elderly. Activity times are from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. For more information, call (706) 353-1313.